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December 2005
Births
TO: Mike and Jen Rushing, a child, Mary Emerald, July 17, New London Friends Church, Indiana.
TO: Todd and Christa Hawkins, a child, Talon Ashe, August 25, New London Friends Church, Indiana.
Deaths
GUYER Naomi Pauline Guyer, 101, Sunday, September 5, 2004, Hopewell Friends Meeting, near Dana, Indiana. Pauline was a member of Hopewell Friends Meeting and also the pastor at Hopewell from 1958 thru 1961. Pauline felt called to the ministry at the age of eight. She was born July 1, 1903 in Sullivan, Indiana to Cyrus and Martha Rhoer Guyer. The parsonage at Pleasant Grove Meeting was built for the Guyer family. She earned a BA from Asbury College in 1927 and was involved in multiple clubs. Pauline lived in Nigeria from 1928 to 1948, working as a missionary for the Sudan Interior Mission. After her return, she completed a Master of Arts degree at Indiana State Teachers College (now known as Indiana State University). She returned to Asbury as a faculty member for the winter quarter of the 1948-49 school year, teaching courses in American and English literature and Sociology. She taught for four years, taking off one year and spent the 1950-51 school year at Indiana University working toward a Ph.D. in English. Pauline was asked by Western Yearly Meeting of Friends to attend the Friends World Conference at Oxford, England as a delegate in 1952. Pauline again traveled abroad as a missionary in 1989 at the age of 80. She spent her last mission trip in Kenya, Africa. Asbury College has the N. Pauline Guyer Africa Middle East Scholarship Fund in her name. Pauline retired to America. Survivors include a sister-in-law and several nieces and nephews.
JORDAN Carl Jordan, 78, July 9, 2005, New Castle Monthly Meeting, Indiana. Carl was born in Preble County, Ohio, December 24, 1926, the son of Levi and Rachel (Etzler) Jordan. As a child, he became a member of West Elkton Friends Meeting, Ohio. After graduating from high school, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served for a year in Germany. He then enrolled at Earlham College, graduating in 1951. There he met Lois Harned, a member of Richsquare Friends Meeting and they were married June 13, 1954. Carl and Lois spent their married life in the Richsquare community where Lois’s family has lived for generations. Carl spent 35 years in elementary education, all but four of them in New Castle. After retirement he was greatly in demand as a member of boards and executive committees. Carl was an active, committed Friend. After his marriage, he became a member of Richsquare Meeting. He and Lois were among its last members, and he was its last clerk before it was laid down. They then became members of New Castle Monthly Meeting. They seldom missed Indiana Yearly Meeting sessions, and Carl served on numerous yearly meeting committees and commissions. For several years he represented the yearly meeting on the board of the Friends Committee on National Legislation. At his death he was a member of the yearly meeting Peace and Christian Social Concerns Committee. Peace and justice issues were special concerns. He was articulate in advocating the Peace Testimony of Friends and opposing injustice, bigotry and discrimination in all of their forms. He also remained a loyal supporter of Earlham, both the college and the school of religion. Carl had three children, Karen, Janet, and Phillip, and five grandchildren.
KINDEL Ersal “Pop” Kindel, 91, September 18, 2005, former Friends missionary. He was born and raised in Missouri, where his father was a Methodist minister. He attended Park College, with majors in biology and industrial arts. In 1938 he married Helen Newlin and moved to Minneapolis, where he worked as a research technician. They moved to Berea in 1947, and a year later they became missionaries in Kenya with the Society of Friends. In 1952 they returned to the United States due to Helen’s illness, followed by her death. He moved back to Berea to teach in the Berea College Foundation School in 1953, where he taught industrial arts and driver’s education. He married Marian Grace Blackburn in 1954 and she passed away in 1959. In 1960, he married Dorothy Bond and the family returned to Kenya in 1965. He taught many Kenyans to build houses, install electricity and water lines, and maintain the mission buildings. Upon their retirement from the mission field, they returned to Berea in 1977 where he created the Ship Shape Sharp Shop and also continued with his woodworking. He attended the Union Church in Berea, sang in the choir, taught Sunday school, led Boy Scouts and contributed both wood and labor for many projects in the church. Survivors include his wife of 45 years, Dorothy Bond Kindel; one son, Merlin (Dot); three daughters, Marilyn (Jim) Powell, Arlene (Peter) Baker and Garnet (Chad) Chrisman; eight grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
LOVING Dr. David M. Denny Loving, 61, August 23, 2005, Indianapolis First Friends Meeting. He died of a stroke after attending the wedding of his son Mark to Rachel Lenehan in Aspen, Colorado. Dr. Denny was born in Norfolk, Virginia, and grew up in Rushville, Indiana. He graduated from Indiana University in 1967 and married his wife, Patricia Allison of Fairmount, Indiana, later that same year. He attended the Indiana University School of Medicine and completed his residency in ophthalmology at the Indiana University Medical Center in 1973. He then joined the Indianapolis ophthalmology practice that eventually became Lashmet, Spitzberg, Denny, Abrams and Lloyd. Throughout his career, Dr. Denny made philanthropic medical missions to foreign countries including Mongolia, Thailand, the Marshall Islands, St. Kitts and Peru. He retired in 2002. He was a long time member of the First Friends Meeting of Indianapolis. His daughter, Allison and Christopher Kandik were married in a bedside ceremony at the hospital. Survivors include his wife, Patricia Allison Denny; two daughters, Jill Denny and Allison (Christopher) Kandik; one son, Mark (Rachel) Denny; two brothers, Christopher and Jonathan Denny; one sister, Jean Vanderburg and his mother-in-law, Nancy Denny.
MOTT John Colman Mott, 87, May 26,2004, three days short of his 88th birthday, Ridgewood (NJ) Friends Meeting. John was born in 1916 and lived most of his life in New Jersey suburbs of New York City. At Harvard College he devoted major interest and effort to the Crimson, serving on its Editorial Board, graduating in 1937 with a major in History. That same Depression year he was fortunate to find a job in investment research. During World War II, without acquaintance with historic peace churches, John applied for and was granted status as a conscientious objector. Subsequent health problems caused reclassification to 4F, and he remained as one of the few young men then employed on Wall Street. He advanced in security analysis and closed his career with 17 years at the Irving Trust Company, a Vice President managing corporate pension funds. John married Kathryn Hardin in 1944 and together they joined the Ridgewood (NJ) Friends Meeting in 1946. Through the next four decades, Quaker activities were a major focus: teaching First Day School, raising funds for Ridgewood’s Meetinghouse, organizing draft counseling during the Vietnam War and anchoring local peace vigils. He traveled to Philadelphia for sessions that launched the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors. For New York Yearly Meeting, he served on the Peace & Social Concerns Committee and on the Board of Managers of Oakwood School; also as a Trustee of the Lindley Murray Fund. In 1987, John and Kay entered Kendal at Longwood. Survivors include his wife, Kathryn; four children, Jeremy, Margaret, Jessica and Bethany; and five grandchildren.